ALICE
IN WONDERLAND |
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Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland is
a work of children’s literature by the English
imathematician and author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
written under the Pseudonym (Pseudonym; Fictitious or made up
name) LEWIS CARROLL. It tells the story of a girl named Alice
who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by
talking playing cards and other anthropomorphic creatures. (anthropomorphic;
to give animals or objects human characteristics, such as a TALKING
white rabbit or WALKING and TALKING playing cards) In
1862 Lewis Carroll told 3 sisters Lorina Liddell (aged13), Alice
Liddell (aged 10) and Edith Liddell (aged 8) a story about a bored
little girl named Alice who goes looking for adventure. The girls
loved it and Alice Liddell asked him to write it down for her.
He did so and on 26th November 1864 gave Alice a copy of Alice’s
Adventures Under Ground.
By 1865 Lewis Carroll had asked John Tenniel to add illustrations to the story also Alice Liddell, herself, had added the episodes about the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Tea-Party. The complete novel was first published on 4th July 1865 and among the first avid readers was a young Queen Victoria.
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The
Author |
LEWIS
CARROLL |
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Lewis
Carroll is well known throughout the world as the author of Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Behind
the famous pseudonym was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematical
lecturer at Oxford University with remarkably diverse talents.